Staff Software Engineer - AI-Powered Code Review

Stripe, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Hybrid work option

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Productivity organization’s Code Review team.

You will own problems across the code review domain, set technical direction, and lead complex projects spanning UI, backend services, and integrations. You will blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build reliable tools that determine what changes can be approved by agents and when human judgment is needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across languages and system boundaries.
• Experience owning a technical domain and leading complex projects.
• Experience using data and user feedback to evaluate quality and guide engineering decisions.
• Experience building alignment across teams and communicating tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with code review tooling and developer productivity goals.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for code review, build alignment across Stripe, and mentor engineers as you lead complex projects from problem definition through delivery and adoption.
• Build and improve agent harnesses that enable review agents to exercise judgment and safely approve pull requests.
• Develop evaluations that compare agent and human review decisions, assess the safety of merged changes and the impact on developer velocity, and guide improvements to approval decisions.
• Evaluate and apply advances in AI and agent orchestration to accelerate engineering delivery across Stripe while maintaining review quality, maintainability, reliability, and change safety.
• Build and maintain Orbit Diffs and the surrounding code review tools, helping engineers understand changes and focus their attention where their judgment is most valuable.
• Improve code ownership, intelligent reviewer assignment, stacked pull request workflows, and controls for change management.
• Support Stripe’s migration to new source control infrastructure by adapting code review workflows and integrations.
• Partner with security, compliance, infrastructure, reliability, and language and runtime teams to improve how software changes are evaluated and approved across Stripe

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Ruby

TypeScript

Job description

Stripe, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Productivity organization’s Code Review team.

You will own problems across the code review domain, set technical direction, and lead complex projects spanning UI, backend services, and integrations. You will blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build reliable tools that determine what changes can be approved by agents and when human judgment is needed.